There are many kinds of miscellaneous technical tools that make people's work easier. Many involve basic kinds of software.

People use Excel for many tasks, which they may or may not outgrow. It facilitates a lot of organization and calculation in the beginning, but growing beyond that will often require a serious development effort.

There are many kinds of general testing equipment, with multimeters, pyrometers, and distance measuring devices being among the most common. But, every industry and application may have specialized testing and measuring equipment and procedures as well. Employing them judiciously is the key.

Standard solutions exist to large classes of problems using the ARIZ (formerly TRIZ) method.